http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:00:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2011/12/what-is-obama-getting-his-kids-for-christmas-this-year-headlines.html Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:00:40 +0000 The two girls will be getting techie gifts form Best Buy this season.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/11/obama-climate-change-cannot-be-denied-headlines.html Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:05:04 +0000 The President has not been as strong on climate change policy as his campaign promised, but he certainly understands the threat of it in this speech.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/11/congress-says-pizza-is-a-vegetable-headlines.html Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:18:50 +0000 In order to fight the Obama administration's proposal for healthier school lunches, Congress has proposed a bill to include tomato sauce as a vegetable.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/11/obama-administration-reveals-plans-to-improve-fuel-efficieny-headlines.html Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:09:42 +0000 The White House has proposed to improve cars' gasoline mileage to 54.5 mpg by 2025, a plan that is under Congressional scrutiny. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/10/obama-for-america-hi-tumblr-headlines.html Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:48:25 +0000 The Barack Obama reelection effort has started a Tumblr blog.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/10/im-on-the-phone-%e2%80%93-barack-obama-disturbs-texting-bystander-headlines.html Mon, 24 Oct 2011 06:30:49 +0000 An ominous portent of the upcoming U.S. 2012 election.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/09/linkedin-hosts-an-obama-town-hall-headlines.html Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:49:52 +0000 The president will take questions about job creation and the economy from LinkedIn members of any background. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/08/obama-checks-in-on-foursquare-headlines.html Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:07:34 +0000 President of the United States, Barack Obama was praised for his use of social media during his 2008 campaign, now the White House has joined Foursquare.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/monocolumn-obama%e2%80%99s-road-trip-%e2%80%93-the-uk-ireland-france%e2%80%a6-and-poland.html Thu, 26 May 2011 14:17:53 +0000 Barbecues and ping-pong: President Barack Obama’s week-long European trip has hardly been a standard one, not least for the choice of destinations.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/obama-plays-ping-pong-with-uks-cameron-headlines.html Tue, 24 May 2011 19:48:30 +0000 President Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron might have big issues to confront – but for a brief moment on Tuesday, they put all that aside for a game of table tennis. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/digital-idolatry-and-the-limits-of-social-media.html Wed, 18 May 2011 22:55:47 +0000 What is social media doing to our memory and relationships? How will technologists solve for its shortcomings in the coming years?]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/04/monocolumn-republicans-think-obama-can-be-beaten-they%e2%80%99re-just-not-sure-who-can-do-it.html Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:50:16 +0000 “The best thing about the New Hampshire primary is that anybody can run and anybody can win,” conservative activist Graham Bosse said last Friday at a Tea Party rally in Concord, as the first week of the 2012 election cycle kicked off in the US.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/04/well-continue-fight-until-gaddafi-goes-vows-obama.html Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:13:51 +0000 The Guardian reports on the President's stance on intervention.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/01/monocolumn-high-hopes-in-portugal-for-a-royal-honeymoon.html Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:50:34 +0000 After cuddly Bo Obama was introduced to the global media, enquiries to breeding farms in the region – Portugal’s most popular tourist destination – inevitably increased. Two years later, the municipality is hoping for another financial boost caused by public name-checking.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/11/monocolumn-obama-looks-for-friends-in-the-east.html Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:29:09 +0000 Feeling unloved at home after a walloping in yesterday’s mid-term elections, US President Barack Obama is heading to Asia – as far from America as you can get – in search of a sympathetic audience.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/10/pic-obama-signs-an-ipad.html Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:00:08 +0000 In what could be a first, the President provides a digital autograph to a fan.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/04/pics-brand-obama-in-africa.html Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:47:59 +0000 As most would likely agree, Barack Obama lead one of the most media-savvy campaigns in 2008--and that extends well beyond politics. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/08/nasa-considers-outsourcing-space-travel.html Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:03:20 +0000 With NASA facing massive budget cuts, the scientific powerhouse must now consider ferrying cargo and astronautics into space through private companies, a first for the agency.  Proponents of the outsourcing idea argue that non-governmental organizations would foot the bill for research and hope to make profit from providing services or creating products with the resulting developments.  As seen at the 50th anniversary of NASA, the research provided by the governmental agency has brought many modern products to fruition. Private companies must often react faster to developments to stay viable, while NASA relies on huge government expenditure.  While a presidentially appointedRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/06/pic-obama-deli.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:00:03 +0000 You’d be forgiven if the first response to the above image was that either some photoshop work or guerrilla street art. But the truth is that the Obama Deli and Grocery will open for business shortly in Brooklyn, NY. From a branding perspective this is getting a lot of pedestrian attention. But maybe not the best. While shooting this photo, a gentleman passing by on the sidewalk said some in the neighborhood are already talking about a protest. The Obama brand was extended in a lot of clever ways (Shepard Fairey’s poster for instance) but there may actually be aRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/03/white-house-drops-youtube-clips-due-to-privacy-issues.html Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:27:14 +0000 The Obama-YouTube love affair is at its end…at least in its official role on whitehouse.gov.  The Obama administration recently bailed on its embeddable YouTube videos and chose clips powered by Akamai, a web service hosted on local servers rather than those of Google.  The administration cited concerns over privacy voiced by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Center for Digital Democracy. Google tracks visitors with long term cookies through YouTube and because Obama’s Weekly Address is an official government function, the underlying technology should be hosted and controlled by government servers.  After running a campaign driven by internet media andRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/lessig-fairey-on-art-commerce-and-corruption.html Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:47:33 +0000 Thursday night, we were treated to an insightful and inspiring production at the New York Public Library as part of their Live from the NYPL series and sponsored by Wired. Titled “Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy”, the event featured Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative Commons among other things, and Shepard Fairey, whom you may have heard of recently. Moderated by cultural historian Steven Johnson, it intended to focus on the future of art and ideas in an age when practically anything can be copied, pasted, downloaded, sampled, and re-imagined. Less about commerce and more aboutRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/01/video-shepard-fairey-on-art-beautiful-mistakes.html Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:17:27 +0000 In the run up to the new US president’s inauguration, there’s been a lot of attention given to the artist Shepard Fairey and the iconic image he created to support Obama’s campaign. At the PSFK Conference Los Angeles we were proud to have the artist speak about the history of his work, his process and his commercial work. Watching the video is a great way to understand how Fairey has come to such prominence. Some of the points he made: * “A lot of stuff for corporations – it’s not even that they don’t mean well, it’s just that they’reRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/01/streaming-tweeting-and-facebooking-the-inauguration.html Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:07:32 +0000 For most Americans, the question yesterday wasn’t whether you should watch the inauguration, it was where. Aside from every TV channel, you could watch live streams online from CBS (on Joost), ABC, CNN, Fox News (on Hulu). Katie Couric covered the post-inaugural events in a web-only cast (sponsored by Audi). There was an official feed from the Presidential Inauguration Committee, an amateur one from Obama Girl on Stickam.com, and everything in between. You could even join a virtual celebration as an avatar of WeeWorld. One of the most popular places to watch was CNN.com, who did a virtual viewing partyRead more...]]>